The department of vital records (or whatever CA calls it) is undoubtedly using some ancient mainframe program written in COBOL or something that stores the records in US-ASCII, or (more ridiculously but equi-probable) EBCDIC.

This is a huge problem with a lot of legacy systems that bites people on the ass regularly but…

I’m sure what he means is the Latin ligature æ that they stuck in there, but he fumbled on what to call it.

An interesting production detail is that Kubrick gave him just his lines in random order with no other context from the rest of the script, so he wouldn’t know what kind of read to give any line, which helped create the affectless readings.

Never seen Trekkies, but Braga’s first job with Star Trek was on TNG as a WGA intern, with part of his job being reading the slush scripts. He probably knows pretty well how shitty they are or are not. (Probably follows Sturgeon’s Law: 90% of everything is shit.) I will stand with my standard semi-defense of him and…

I mean, to be fair his dad was arrested in Klan regalia at Klan rally in Queens in 1927, and Birth of a Nation was filmed in Hollywood in 1915. Wouldn’t be him. Probably.

Specifically, the production company owned by the Obamas bought the movie after it was completed. To be the credited producer who receives the Oscar, you “must play a major role in originating the projects on which [you] have received credit” and “that individual must have performed a major portion of the producing…

And you can also head over to his Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/zhandlen/ and read weekly Voyager recaps (just getting into S2) if you’re so inclined and want to throw a little cash his way.

The Gamecube may not be super powerful (I mean, it’s 18 years old at this point) but it is infamously super weird and hard to emulate.

The Gamecube may not be super powerful (I mean, it’s 18 years old at this point) but it is infamously super weird…

It’s probably the primary component of his diet. “Hi. I’m Steve Bannon and I exclusively drink <CHEAP WHISKEY BRAND>. And I mean *exclusively*!”

She does have a lovely voice, but I’m rarely in an environment where I can watch a video. I’d accept imagining it in my head while I read in a fraction of the time.

Obligatory “Please, for the love of god, stop posting video interviews, or at the very least, also provide a transcript” post. Seriously. Just stop. No video.

Are you familiar with Ben Franklin?

I remember in the late ‘90s when Barry Lyndon was being shown at a local art theater, one of the alternative papers did a write up about it and called him “a human jar of mayonnaise”, which is an insult I deeply enjoyed and still periodically deploy about bland yet awful male actors.

If you went and turned it on then, great for you! Enjoy!. But it’s a) awful, b) the default on almost all new TVs (I don’t care if it’s an *option* if it’s not the default), and c) always has some ridiculous proprietary name like “Auto Motion Plus” or “Trumotion” or “Perfect Motion Rate” that makes it sound like it’s…

Hulu was a joint venture of (primarily) ABC/Disney, NBC/Comcast, and Fox, with each owning up to 33% (AT&T owned 10% until recently). Then Disney bought Fox, which brought their ownership up to 67%. They made a deal to (non-exclusively) keep NBC content until at least 2024, at which point Disney can buy the remaining…

I saw a trailer when dragged to Dumbo earlier this summer. (I have a 7 year old.) And I see pre-roll ads for it all the time on YouTube. Not sure what demo they think I’m in that I’m getting targeted and the rest of you aren’t. Presumably, “middle aged, middle class, parent of elementary school student”, but honestly…

I had stopped buying the 2005-present box sets because it was all streaming on Amazon Prime (eventually). Looks like its time to head back to physical media. These streaming services need to stop proliferating.

IIRC, they wanted to have actual animated graphics on the bridge displays but there was a mix of technical and political issues with doing so.

Star Trek (all of it until partway through Enterprise) was filmed on 35mm film at 24fps. If they used video displays, they’d have to sync 29.92fps NTSC video to film speed. This…

T-120 recorded on SLP. It looked like absolute shit, even by VHS standards, but by god you could fit 360 minutes. Commercial tapes were pretty much always SP, which got you the highest quality.

They could always change their minds, but Nintendo has said on several occasions that they are done with the mini-consoles. All future emulation work will be focused on the Switch for Switch Online subscribers (even though all that has so far is a some NES games).